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Jarek Gawor's excellent LDAP Browser/Editor v2.8.2

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Jarek Gawor's excellent LDAP Browser/Editor v2.8.2 - though last updated in 2001, still one of the best! Works perfectly with current java version 5 and 6.

All previous download links seem to be broken, so here's a refresh for all who prefer superfast and minimalistic tools like me.

Here's the readme:

LDAP Browser/Editor 2.8.2 Release Notes, April 25th, 2001

The LDAP Browser/Editor 2.8.2 is a maintenance release. It contains a number of bug fixes and various improvements described below. It also contains a couple of new features. For a complete list of changes see the changes.txt file included with the distribution.

New Features/Improvements:

1. Multiple windows: Multiple windows/connections can be opened at the same time without starting a separate JVM for each connection.
2. Improved UTF8 support for various functions and operations.
3. For authenticated connections, the password does not need to be stored in the configuration file anymore. The Browser will prompt the user for the password when needed.
4. Improved configuration. Generic and static Browser settings are now pulled and stored in a separate configuration file. See What is lbe.properties file? question for details.
5. PKCS12 support: The CA certificates, and client certificates can now be loaded from the PKCS12 files. The files must have .p12 extension to be loaded in the PKCS12 format. This functionality relies on the JSSE and its support for PKCS12 standard.
6. Partial internationalization: This is an initial effort to internationalize the entire code and translate it into a couple of languages. Right now only a small portion of the code is internationalized and only Polish translation is provided.

Bug Fixes:

1. Backslash characters ('\') were not properly escaped in the session files.
2. UTF8 encoded distinguished names were incorrectly encoded/decoded in ldap urls.

Current limitations/bugs:

* LDIF changetypes are not supported.
* No schema integration.
* No VLV/Paged results support.
* Fetch DN only works with ldap v3 servers.
* Various window refresh problems - due to bugs in JVM.

Other Notes:

If running the Browser with JVM 1.3 you might encounter some problems with the JNDI library. JVM 1.3 includes an older version of the JNDI library then the version that is distributed with the Browser. 1.3 will load the older version instead of the Browser version. To force the Browser to load its version of the JNDI library using the 'lbe' script pass 'fix13' as the first parameter to the script. Examples: on Windows type: lbe.bat fix13 on Unix/Linux type: lbe.sh fix13.

Mac OS X:

The Browser was successfully tested on Mac OS X.

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  • Take note that the file is actually tar'ed and GZipped, not just plain ZIP. Not a big deal, unless you are using the default Windows unzipper on a fresh machine.
  • in reply to MigrationDeletedUser 

    linux:/tmp # tar -tvzf Gawor_ldapbrowser_282.zip
    gzip: stdin has more than one entry--rest ignored
    tar: This does not look like a tar archive
    tar: Skipping to next header
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

    linux:/tmp # unzip -l Gawor_ldapbrowser_282.zip
    Archive:  Gawor_ldapbrowser_282.zip
      Length     Date   Time    Name
     --------    ----   ----    ----
         1187  07-10-09 11:47   applet.html
         1123  07-18-04 14:00   attributes.config
        10976  04-25-01 16:30   CHANGES.TXT
        28054  04-25-01 16:30   faq.html
            0  07-10-09 11:33   help/
         1123  04-25-01 16:30   help/attributes.config.sample
         3547  04-25-01 16:30   help/general.html
          794  04-25-01 16:30   help/notes.html
         2733  04-25-01 16:30   help/uofmichigan.cfg.sample
        20205  04-25-01 16:30   help/usage.html
          431  07-10-09 11:43   lbe.bat
       342395  04-25-01 16:30   lbe.jar
          485  12-03-03 16:51   lbe.old.bat
          466  04-25-01 16:32   lbe.old.sh
          338  04-25-01 16:32   lbe.sh
        13683  02-22-08 12:52   lbecacerts
            0  07-10-09 11:33   lib/
        98496  04-25-01 16:30   lib/jndi.jar
       123717  04-25-01 16:30   lib/ldap.jar
        39138  04-25-01 16:30   lib/ldapbp.jar
        77117  04-25-01 16:30   lib/providerutil.jar
         1681  04-25-01 16:30   LICENSE.ICONS
         2556  04-25-01 16:30   readme.html
         3164  04-25-01 16:30   relnotes.html
            0  07-10-09 11:33   templates/
          299  12-08-05 15:43   templates/appApplication.template
          185  07-31-06 15:45   templates/dNIPDNSRRset.template
          485  04-25-01 16:30   templates/organization.template
          484  04-25-01 16:30   templates/organizationalPerson.template
          502  04-25-01 16:30   templates/organizationalUnit.template
          185  04-25-01 16:30   templates/person.template
          300  07-31-06 15:45   templates/templates.config
          176  07-31-06 15:44   templates/Top.template
     --------                   -------
       776025                   33 files
  • in reply to MigrationDeletedUser
    So I was on a Windows server with no ZIPPer beyond the built in. The default Windows compressed folders would not open it. Installed 7Zip and it took two passes to extract it (Typical of tar.gz compression).

    Not sure now.
  • in reply to MigrationDeletedUser
    Works for me on (German) Win2k3SP2 (did not try on pre-SP2 or Win2k8), maybe just a corrupt download?
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